With its red and black color scheme, the first Teutonia Sport awakened the Italian in us. With the Teutonia Sport I “Clous de Paris” on our arm, we tend to see the legendary Silberpfeile racing past our mind’s eye. Here, of course, we are referring to the historic Grand Prix racing cars of the Saxon Auto Union. For with Horch, DKW and Wanderer, R. Mühle & Sohn supplied three of its four brands with the equally legendary Glashütte Mühle tachometers as well as car clocks and tachometers.
THE DIAL OF THE TEUTONIA SPORT I
CLOUS DE PARIS
“Clous de Paris” refers to
a particularly elaborate type
of guilloché or embossing of a dial.
Since here small pyramid-shaped elevations
arise, it is also called
“horseshoe nail pattern” in English. Taken quite literally
means “Clous de Paris” but “nails of Paris”.